Perl 5.17.3 is now available!

Preparation:
Cut 16 Perl Onions into quarters and put them in a grill smoker rack
or a perforated pan over a BBQ using hickory wood chips or Special
Blend Smoker Bisquettes. Smoke them for an hour and remove once they
look golden brown.
Let them cool and put them in the fridge (or freezer) until you are
ready to create the soup.
Ingredients:
16 diced, pre-smoked, Perl Onions
3 tbsp butter
1/4 cup olive oil
2 small garlic cloves, finely minced
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
black pepper to taste
1 cup red wine
1/4 cup all purpose flour
6 cups of beef or vegetable stock
1 cup of thick cream (milk can be used as a substitute)
Method:
Melt the butter in a pan and then add olive oil.
Heat and add the onions to caramelize over a medium-high heat for up
to half an hour.
Add the garlic, turn down the heat and cook for a further 5 minutes.
Add the salt, pepper and sugar.
Now add the red wine and reduce to a jam like consistency.
Add the flour, stir well and add the stock a cup at a time.
Simmer for 30 minutes, add the cream and heat to almost boiling.
Enjoy.
-- Kris Ta-belle, /Smoked Perl Onion Soup/
We are as pleased as Punch to announce Perl 5.17.3, the fourth
development release of Perl 5.17.
You will soon be able to download Perl 5.17.3 from your favourite CPAN
mirror or find it at:
https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.17.3/
SHA1 digests for this release are:
0b74ae6695c00a011a0ceadf065dc86edbd03736 perl-5.17.3.tar.gz
0a0dd82670a8ad9ff05f2b5939e6f654bec65a70 perl-5.17.3.tar.bz2
You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located
in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web.
Perl 5.17.3 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl
5.17.2 and contains approximately 85,000 lines of changes across 470
files from 24 authors.
Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant
community of users and developers. The following people are known to
have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.17.3:
Andy Dougherty, Chip Salzenberg, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A.
Berry, Daniel Dragan, Dave Rolsky, David Leadbeater, David Mitchell,
Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Goro Fuji, James E Keenan, Jan Dubois,
Joaquin Ferrero, Karl Williamson, Nicholas Clark, Paul Marquess, Reini
Urban, Ricardo Signes, Robin Barker, Shirakata Kentaro, Steffen Müller,
Steve Hay, Tony Cook.
The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
generated from version control history. In particular, it does not
include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who
reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN
modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN
community for helping Perl to flourish.
For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
please see the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
We expect to release Perl 5.17.4 on 20 September 2012. The next major
stable release of Perl 5, version 5.18.0, should appear in May 2013.
Enjoy!
Steve Hay